Week 9: Ordinary Men or Willing Executioners?
 

Map: Territorial Annexations in Poland (1939-1941)
Map: Operation Barbarossa, 22 June-5 December 1941
Map: Soviet Counter-Offensive, Winter 1941-1942

Text: The Commissar Order (6 June 1941)
Text: The Stahlecker Report (15 October 1941)
Text: The Jäger Report (1 December 1941)
Text: The Wannsee Conference (20 January 1942)

Clip: Pogrom in Lvov, June 1941
Clip: Open Air Killings in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941

Graph: The Destruction of the Jews of Lithuania, July-November 1941  
Map: Major Einsatzgruppen Massacres (Overview)
Annimated Map: The Einsatzgruppen Murders (1941-1943)

Image right: Shootings at the Pančevo cemetery wall, 22 April 1941. After a German soldier was shot and wounded in Pančevo, Serbia, during the invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, around 100 civilians were rounded up for reprisals. An ad hoc court martial found 36 of the arrestees guilty, four of whom were shot on 21 April. The following day, another eighteen were hanged and fourteen more were executed point-blank along the cemetery wall by a squad from the "Grossdeutschland" regiment.

The Decision for Genocide
A. An Act of Enraged Frustration?
B. An Act of War Euphoria?
C. What Was the Significance of the Wannsee Conference?

Image: This photograph documents the round-up of Jews in Lubny, Ukraine, just prior to their massacre on 16 October 1941. Source: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Wiesbaden; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.